Police on the A487 road saw a car connected by a steel chain to a van with the car door open and the driver vomiting into the roadway, a court was told.

Nigel Stone aged 42, of Fronfelin, Oakford, Llanarth, pleaded guilty at Ceredigion Magistrates Court to a charge of being in charge of a Mitsubishi Spacestar at Ffosyffin on Sunday, October 16 with alcohol level above the limit.

Crown prosecutor Gerald Neave said patrolling officers came upon the van and car near the Forge Garage in Ffosyffin at 4.20am.

Stone, a self-employed chartered surveyor, provided a positive roadside breath test and intoximeter tests showed he had 57 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath compared to the legal limit of 35.

Defence solicitor David Hinton-Jones said the defendant had not driven that night and was helping to get the Spacestar car off the road to a nearby car park after it had been in an accident.

“He had no intention of driving the car and was just steering it into the car park,” said the solicitor.

After considering mitigation from Mr. Hinton-Jones the bench fined Stone £167 with £85 costs and £15 victim surcharge and disqualified him from driving for 28 days.